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Posh pushovers: why do films squeeze out the middle classes?http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2011/feb/25/films-middle-classes-class-archipelago
Cinema veers from one extreme to the other when depicting class, but Joanna Hogg's Archipelago is a breath of fresh air<p>I recently saw one of British cinema's grandest of grandees, Stephen Frears, give a Q&amp;A – alongside film producer Sandy Lieberson – in which he talked about, among other things, Free Cinema – the documentary movement founded in the mid-1950s by the likes of Lindsay Anderson and Karel Reisz. It was, as Frears explained, a pivotal moment for British film – one where young, riled-up directors elected to buck convention and tell stories about ordinary people leading ordinary lives – to carve out a place on screen for the unseen world of factory jobs, fuggy pubs, bedsit rooms and dead dreams.</p><p></p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2011/feb/25/films-middle-classes-class-archipelago">Continue reading...</a>Joanna HoggFilmCultureStephen FrearsMike LeighSocietyPovertyFri, 25 Feb 2011 15:22:36 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2011/feb/25/films-middle-classes-class-archipelagoPRTrip to Tresco (not Tesco) ... Archipelago follows a middle-class family on holidayPRJoanna Hogg's ArchipelagoDanny Leigh2011-02-25T15:22:36ZPlease Give warns the well-off they can never be good | David Coxhttp://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2010/jun/21/please-give-morals
Nicole Holofcener's new examination of middle-class morals suggests the privileged cannot hope for a clear conscience<p>What's more annoying? The privileged abusing the less privileged? The privileged agonising about their resulting moral qualms? Privileged film-makers documenting this anguish? Or privileged cinemagoers patting themselves on the back for going to see their films? Such are some of the questions that Nicole Holofcener has invited with Please Give. Nonetheless, she answers a more interesting one.</p><p>Once, it was clear what it meant to be good. Virtue lay in compliance with agreed precepts, and could thus be readily rewarded with both public benefits and private satisfaction. Transgression could be resisted not just with accepted penalties but with social stigma as well. Then, philosophical, economic and social change moved the goalposts.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2010/jun/21/please-give-morals">Continue reading...</a>FilmComedyPovertyRebecca HallCultureSocial exclusionMon, 21 Jun 2010 10:44:37 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2010/jun/21/please-give-moralsPiotr RedlinskiWhat price privilege? … Amanda Peet in Please Give. Photograph: Piotr RedlinskiPiotr RedlinskiAmanda Peet in Please Give Photograph: Piotr RedlinskiDavid Cox2010-06-21T10:44:37Z